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Sample IEEE Paper for A4 Page Size

First Author#, Second Author*, Third Author#


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First-Third Department, First-Third University
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first.author@first-third.edu
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third.author@first-third.edu
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Second Company
Address Including Country Name
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second.author@second.com

Abstract— This document gives formatting instructions for Title must be in 24 pt Regular font. Author name must be
authors preparing papers for publication in the Proceedings of in 11 pt Regular font. Author affiliation must be in 10 pt Italic.
an IEEE conference. The authors must follow the instructions Email address must be in 9 pt Courier Regular font.
given in the document for the papers to be published. You can
use this document as both an instruction set and as a template
into which you can type your own text. TABLE I
FONT SIZES FOR PAPERS

Keywords— Include at least 5 keywords or phrases Font Appearance (in Time New Roman or Times)
Size Regular Bold Italic
I. INTRODUCTION 8 table caption (in reference item
Small Caps), (partial)
This document is a template. An electronic copy can be
figure caption,
downloaded from the conference website. For questions on reference item
paper guidelines, please contact the conference publications 9 author email address abstract abstract heading
committee as indicated on the conference website. (in Courier), body (also in Bold)
Information about final paper submission is available from the cell in a table
conference website. 10 level-1 heading (in level-2 heading,
Small Caps), level-3 heading,
II. PAGE LAYOUT paragraph author affiliation
An easy way to comply with the conference paper 11 author name
formatting requirements is to use this document as a template 24 title
and simply type your text into it.
All title and author details must be in single-column format
A. Page Layout and must be centered.
Your paper must use a page size corresponding to A4 Every word in a title must be capitalized except for short
which is 210mm (8.27") wide and 297mm (11.69") long. The minor words such as “a”, “an”, “and”, “as”, “at”, “by”, “for”,
margins must be set as follows: “from”, “if”, “in”, “into”, “on”, “or”, “of”, “the”, “to”, “with”.
• Top = 19mm (0.75") Author details must not show any professional title (e.g.
• Bottom = 43mm (1.69") Managing Director), any academic title (e.g. Dr.) or any
• Left = Right = 14.32mm (0.56") membership of any professional organization (e.g. Senior
Your paper must be in two column format with a space of Member IEEE).
4.22mm (0.17") between columns. To avoid confusion, the family name must be written as the
last part of each author name (e.g. John A.K. Smith).
III. PAGE STYLE Each affiliation must include, at the very least, the name of
All paragraphs must be indented. All paragraphs must be the company and the name of the country where the author is
justified, i.e. both left-justified and right-justified. based (e.g. Causal Productions Pty Ltd, Australia).
Email address is compulsory for the corresponding author.
A. Text Font of Entire Document
C. Section Headings
The entire document should be in Times New Roman or
Times font. Type 3 fonts must not be used. Other font types No more than 3 levels of headings should be used. All
may be used if needed for special purposes. headings must be in 10pt font. Every word in a heading must
Recommended font sizes are shown in Table 1. be capitalized except for short minor words as listed in
Section III-B.
B. Title and Author Details
1) Level-1 Heading: A level-1 heading must be in Small
Caps, centered and numbered using uppercase Roman
numerals. For example, see heading “III. Page Style” of this must be placed after their associated figures, as shown in
document. The two level-1 headings which must not be Fig. 1.
numbered are “Acknowledgment” and “References”.
2) Level-2 Heading: A level-2 heading must be in Italic,
left-justified and numbered using an uppercase alphabetic
letter followed by a period. For example, see heading “C.
Section Headings” above.
3) Level-3 Heading: A level-3 heading must be indented,
in Italic and numbered with an Arabic numeral followed by a
right parenthesis. The level-3 heading must end with a colon.
Fig. 2 Example of an unacceptable low-resolution image
The body of the level-3 section immediately follows the level-
3 heading in the same paragraph. For example, this paragraph
begins with a level-3 heading.
D. Figures and Tables
Figures and tables must be centered in the column. Large
figures and tables may span across both columns. Any table
or figure that takes up more than 1 column width must be
positioned either at the top or at the bottom of the page.
Graphics may be full color. All colors will be retained on
the CDROM. Graphics must not use stipple fill patterns
because they may not be reproduced properly. Please use Fig. 3 Example of an image with acceptable resolution
only SOLID FILL colors which contrast well both on screen
and on a black-and-white hardcopy, as shown in Fig. 1.
F. Table Captions
Tables must be numbered using uppercase Roman numerals.
Table captions must be centred and in 8 pt Regular font with
Small Caps. Every word in a table caption must be capitalized
except for short minor words as listed in Section III-B.
Captions with table numbers must be placed before their
associated tables, as shown in Table 1.
G. Page Numbers, Headers and Footers
Page numbers, headers and footers must not be used.
H. Links and Bookmarks
All hypertext links and section bookmarks will be removed
from papers during the processing of papers for publication.
Fig. 1 A sample line graph using colors which contrast well both on screen
and on a black-and-white hardcopy If you need to refer to an Internet email address or URL in
your paper, you must type out the address or URL fully in
Regular font.
Fig. 2 shows an example of a low-resolution image which
would not be acceptable, whereas Fig. 3 shows an example of
an image with adequate resolution. Check that the resolution
is adequate to reveal the important detail in the figure.
Please check all figures in your paper both on screen and on
a black-and-white hardcopy. When you check your paper on
a black-and-white hardcopy, please ensure that:
• the colors used in each figure contrast well,
• the image used in each figure is clear,
• all text labels in each figure are legible.

E. Figure Captions
Figures must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figure
captions must be in 8 pt Regular font. Captions of a single
line (e.g. Fig. 2) must be centered whereas multi-line captions
must be justified (e.g. Fig. 1). Captions with figure numbers
Causal Productions has used its best efforts to ensure that the
I. References templates have the same appearance.
The heading of the References section must not be
numbered. All reference items must be in 8 pt font. Please ACKNOWLEDGMENT
use Regular and Italic styles to distinguish different fields as The heading of the Acknowledgment section and the
shown in the References section. Number the reference items References section must not be numbered.
consecutively in square brackets (e.g. [1]). Causal Productions wishes to acknowledge Michael Shell
When referring to a reference item, please simply use the and other contributors for developing and maintaining the
reference number, as in [2]. Do not use “Ref. [3]” or IEEE LaTeX style files which have been used in the
“Reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence, e.g. preparation of this template. To see the list of contributors,
“Reference [3] shows …”. Multiple references are each please refer to the top of file IEEETran.cls in the IEEE LaTeX
numbered with separate brackets (e.g. [2], [3], [4]–[6]). distribution.
Examples of reference items of different categories shown
in the References section include: REFERENCES
• example of a book in [1] [1] S. M. Metev and V. P. Veiko, Laser Assisted Microtechnology, 2nd ed.,
• example of a book in a series in [2] R. M. Osgood, Jr., Ed. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1998.
[2] J. Breckling, Ed., The Analysis of Directional Time Series:
• example of a journal article in [3]
Applications to Wind Speed and Direction, ser. Lecture Notes in
• example of a conference paper in [4] Statistics. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 1989, vol. 61.
• example of a patent in [5] [3] S. Zhang, C. Zhu, J. K. O. Sin, and P. K. T. Mok, “A novel ultrathin
• example of a website in [6] elevated channel low-temperature poly-Si TFT,” IEEE Electron Device
Lett., vol. 20, pp. 569–571, Nov. 1999.
• example of a web page in [7]
[4] M. Wegmuller, J. P. von der Weid, P. Oberson, and N. Gisin, “High
• example of a databook as a manual in [8] resolution fiber distributed measurements with coherent OFDR,” in
• example of a datasheet in [9] Proc. ECOC’00, 2000, paper 11.3.4, p. 109.
• example of a master’s thesis in [10] [5] R. E. Sorace, V. S. Reinhardt, and S. A. Vaughn, “High-speed digital-
to-RF converter,” U.S. Patent 5 668 842, Sept. 16, 1997.
• example of a technical report in [11]
[6] (2002) The IEEE website. [Online]. Available: http://www.ieee.org/
• example of a standard in [12] [7] M. Shell. (2002) IEEEtran homepage on CTAN. [Online]. Available:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-
IV. CONCLUSIONS archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/IEEEtran/
[8] FLEXChip Signal Processor (MC68175/D), Motorola, 1996.
The version of this template is V2. Most of the formatting [9] “PDCA12-70 data sheet,” Opto Speed SA, Mezzovico, Switzerland.
instructions in this document have been compiled by Causal [10] A. Karnik, “Performance of TCP congestion control with rate feedback:
Productions from the IEEE LaTeX style files. Causal TCP/ABR and rate adaptive TCP/IP,” M. Eng. thesis, Indian Institute
Productions offers both A4 templates and US Letter templates of Science, Bangalore, India, Jan. 1999.
[11] J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, and D. Towsley, “A stochastic model of TCP
for LaTeX and Microsoft Word. The LaTeX templates Reno congestion avoidance and control,” Univ. of Massachusetts,
depend on the official IEEEtran.cls and IEEEtran.bst files, Amherst, MA, CMPSCI Tech. Rep. 99-02, 1999.
whereas the Microsoft Word templates are self-contained. [12] Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer
(PHY) Specification, IEEE Std. 802.11, 1997.

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